Azure Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 12 6
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 655 384 793
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 10.36% 12.80% 12.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.19% 43.74% 46.54%
Number of salaries quoted 280 291 714
10th Percentile £24,000 £26,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,892 £36,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £73,750 £58,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £72,500 £73,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £59,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +5.93% -9.23%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,590 878 1,704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 25.15% 29.26% 27.85%
Number of salaries quoted 745 635 1,460
10th Percentile £27,050 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,750
Median % change year-on-year - +9.29% -16.82%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,875 £63,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,243 £75,075
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,103 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.64% +8.00% -11.54%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 10 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 10 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Essex -1 157 £55,000 +28.65% 32
Cambridgeshire -1 141 £60,100 +20.20% 25
Hertfordshire -14 127 £60,000 +9.09% 59
Suffolk +27 100 £45,120 -9.76% 17
Norfolk 0 91 £60,000 +84.43% 24
Bedfordshire +9 37 £14,000 -73.58% 22
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 57 (8.70%) SharePoint
2 30 (4.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.37%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.07%) WordPress
5 5 (0.76%) CMS
6 2 (0.31%) Luigi
7 1 (0.15%) Apache
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 87 (13.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.61%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (1.37%) Dynamics AX
1 9 (1.37%) Dynamics GP
2 8 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.76%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.31%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 148 (22.60%) Power Platform
2 123 (18.78%) Azure AI
3 119 (18.17%) Microsoft 365
4 85 (12.98%) AWS
5 74 (11.30%) Entra ID
6 40 (6.11%) PowerApps
7 39 (5.95%) Azure DevOps
8 38 (5.80%) Power Automate
9 34 (5.19%) Azure Data Factory
9 34 (5.19%) Azure Logic Apps
10 30 (4.58%) OneDrive
11 24 (3.66%) GCP
12 21 (3.21%) GitHub
13 19 (2.90%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 17 (2.60%) IaaS
14 17 (2.60%) SaaS
15 13 (1.98%) Snowflake
16 11 (1.68%) Azure AKS
16 11 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
17 10 (1.53%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 55 (8.40%) Firewall
2 24 (3.66%) DNS
2 24 (3.66%) VPN
3 16 (2.44%) WAN
4 14 (2.14%) DHCP
5 12 (1.83%) Internet
5 12 (1.83%) LAN
6 11 (1.68%) TCP/IP
7 8 (1.22%) Wireless
8 7 (1.07%) Broadband
8 7 (1.07%) Network Security
9 6 (0.92%) DMZ
10 4 (0.61%) VLAN
10 4 (0.61%) WLAN
11 3 (0.46%) SAN
11 3 (0.46%) SSL
11 3 (0.46%) VoIP
12 2 (0.31%) SD-WAN
13 1 (0.15%) Cisco Wireless
13 1 (0.15%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (20.61%) Power BI
2 92 (14.05%) Tableau
3 58 (8.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 24 (3.66%) SQL Server
5 22 (3.36%) MongoDB
6 14 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (1.98%) Data Lake
8 11 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (1.22%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.92%) Looker
10 6 (0.92%) MySQL
10 6 (0.92%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.46%) Big Data
12 3 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
13 2 (0.31%) Redis
13 2 (0.31%) Relational Database
13 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.31%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (1.83%) Git
2 8 (1.22%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.92%) JIRA
3 6 (0.92%) MLflow
4 2 (0.31%) Selenium
5 1 (0.15%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.15%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.15%) JMeter
5 1 (0.15%) Postman
5 1 (0.15%) REST Assured
General
1 381 (58.17%) Social Skills
2 71 (10.84%) Finance
3 28 (4.27%) Law
4 25 (3.82%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (2.14%) Public Sector
6 11 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (1.37%) Marketing
7 9 (1.37%) Multimedia
8 8 (1.22%) Legal
9 7 (1.07%) Retail
10 5 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (0.76%) Publishing
11 4 (0.61%) Banking
11 4 (0.61%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.46%) Advertising
13 2 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.31%) Music Industry
13 2 (0.31%) Police
14 1 (0.15%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 181 (27.63%) Analyst
2 171 (26.11%) Junior
3 168 (25.65%) Junior Analyst
4 86 (13.13%) Developer
5 85 (12.98%) Security Analyst
6 84 (12.82%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 84 (12.82%) Data Analyst
6 84 (12.82%) Junior Data Analyst
6 84 (12.82%) Junior Security Analyst
7 65 (9.92%) IT Support
8 60 (9.16%) Ethical Hacker
9 49 (7.48%) Senior
10 39 (5.95%) Azure Engineer
11 35 (5.34%) Network Engineer
12 34 (5.19%) IT Engineer
13 31 (4.73%) Support Engineer
14 30 (4.58%) Architect
14 30 (4.58%) Lead
15 28 (4.27%) .NET Developer
15 28 (4.27%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (9.01%) CSS
2 55 (8.40%) .NET
3 50 (7.63%) HTML
4 47 (7.18%) .NET Core
5 28 (4.27%) ASP.NET
6 27 (4.12%) ASP.NET Core
7 23 (3.51%) JSON
8 22 (3.36%) HTML5 Canvas
9 19 (2.90%) Microsoft Graph
9 19 (2.90%) SPFx
10 17 (2.60%) React
10 17 (2.60%) REST
11 14 (2.14%) ML.NET
12 13 (1.98%) RESTful
13 12 (1.83%) Node.js
14 11 (1.68%) Entity Framework
14 11 (1.68%) jQuery
15 10 (1.53%) SOAP
16 9 (1.37%) Blazor
17 8 (1.22%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 60 (9.16%) Cyberattack
2 32 (4.89%) Cloud Native
3 13 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
3 13 (1.98%) Onboarding
4 11 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (1.53%) Security Posture
6 9 (1.37%) Driving Licence
7 8 (1.22%) Clustering
7 8 (1.22%) Low-Code
7 8 (1.22%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.07%) Cloud Security Posture
8 7 (1.07%) PKI
8 7 (1.07%) Robotics
9 6 (0.92%) Blog
9 6 (0.92%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 6 (0.92%) Data Structures
9 6 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (0.92%) Public Cloud
10 5 (0.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 80 (12.21%) Windows
2 50 (7.63%) Windows Server
3 11 (1.68%) Android
3 11 (1.68%) Linux
3 11 (1.68%) Windows Server 2016
4 10 (1.53%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (1.07%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.76%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.76%) VMS
7 3 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.31%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (32.52%) Cybersecurity
2 168 (25.65%) AI
3 138 (21.07%) Business Intelligence
4 127 (19.39%) Mentoring
5 81 (12.37%) Agile
6 66 (10.08%) DevOps
7 62 (9.47%) Problem-Solving
8 60 (9.16%) Ethical Hacking
9 56 (8.55%) CI/CD
10 51 (7.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 46 (7.02%) Machine Learning
12 37 (5.65%) Computer Science
13 36 (5.50%) Analytics
14 34 (5.19%) Roadmaps
14 34 (5.19%) Technical Leadership
15 33 (5.04%) Full-Stack Development
16 31 (4.73%) Project Management
17 29 (4.43%) Stakeholder Management
18 28 (4.27%) ERP
19 27 (4.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Programming Languages
1 196 (29.92%) SQL
2 154 (23.51%) Python
3 88 (13.44%) C#
4 51 (7.79%) JavaScript
5 45 (6.87%) PowerShell
6 27 (4.12%) TypeScript
7 24 (3.66%) PHP
8 13 (1.98%) Java
9 10 (1.53%) C++
10 8 (1.22%) R
11 6 (0.92%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.76%) Bash
13 2 (0.31%) Bicep
13 2 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.31%) Scala
14 1 (0.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 305 (46.56%) Azure Certification
2 86 (13.13%) CompTIA Security+
3 85 (12.98%) CompTIA CySA+
4 60 (9.16%) CEH
5 56 (8.55%) Degree
6 40 (6.11%) Microsoft Certification
7 39 (5.95%) Security Cleared
8 37 (5.65%) Cisco Certification
9 32 (4.89%) CCNA
10 28 (4.27%) Network+ Certification
11 26 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
12 24 (3.66%) SC Cleared
13 17 (2.60%) AWS Certification
14 9 (1.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 8 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
16 7 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 7 (1.07%) DV Cleared
17 6 (0.92%) DBS Check
18 5 (0.76%) CCNP
19 4 (0.61%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.05%) GDPR
2 18 (2.75%) QA
3 13 (1.98%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.68%) GRC
5 10 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.53%) NIST
6 9 (1.37%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.22%) SLA
8 7 (1.07%) NCSC
9 6 (0.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 6 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 6 (0.92%) JSP 440
9 6 (0.92%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.46%) PMO
11 2 (0.31%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.31%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.15%) IFRS
12 1 (0.15%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 80 (12.21%) Active Directory
2 21 (3.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.29%) Hyper-V
4 14 (2.14%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (1.68%) Docker
6 7 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.92%) vSphere
8 1 (0.15%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 30 (4.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (3.05%) Kubernetes
3 15 (2.29%) Terraform
4 7 (1.07%) Ansible
5 4 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (0.61%) SolarWinds Orion
5 4 (0.61%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.15%) Grafana
6 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 1 (0.15%) Nessus
6 1 (0.15%) SCCM
6 1 (0.15%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 460 (70.23%) Microsoft
2 168 (25.65%) ForeScout
3 35 (5.34%) Cisco
4 25 (3.82%) VMware
5 19 (2.90%) Adobe
5 19 (2.90%) Databricks
6 14 (2.14%) Apple
7 12 (1.83%) SAP
7 12 (1.83%) ServiceNow
8 11 (1.68%) Google
9 10 (1.53%) Fortinet
10 9 (1.37%) Epicor
10 9 (1.37%) SolarWinds
10 9 (1.37%) Veeam
11 7 (1.07%) Aruba
11 7 (1.07%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.07%) Salesforce
12 6 (0.92%) Cloudera
12 6 (0.92%) Meraki
12 6 (0.92%) Pega